======  Regular meeting on 2017.08.23 ======
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===== Preliminary agenda =====

 General points in Wiki's dashboard:
  - Upcoming Tests - Planning
  - Results from Recent Tests - Analyzing/discussing
  - Common Test Infrastructure - Building
  - XRTC Annual Meeting.
  - Other Activities & Resources

===== MoM =====

==== 1.  Attendees  ====
In alphabetical order, by first name.

-- Alexander Pawlitzki, (Thales-Alenia Space, Deutschland) \\
-- Austin Lesea (Xilinx) \\
-- Filip Veljkovic, TAS-E (Thales-Alenia Space, España) \\
-- Luis Berrojo, TAS-E (Thales-Alenia Space, España) \\
-- Gary Swift (chair, Swift ERS) \\
-- Paul Nunnally (Xilinx FAE) \\
-- Sebastian Garcia (Slabs) \\
-- Stephen Thomas (Boeing) \\
-- Victor Liau (Hughes Network Systems) \\


==== 2.  Topics covered ====

Today is a short meeting. 
The **XRTC annual meeting** is about to start; later today there is the meeting for next-gen test infrastructure development. \\

Victor asks for pointers on some **management-targeted document** that summarizes the real need for radiation effects characterization, and appropriate design methodologies for Space. Specifically, for DSP-based applications. \\
Austin suggest documents, including material from the Safety standards. \\
Sebas suggests to write such a document from the XRTC members experience, in the current Space missions scenario (i.e., including considerations for the so called New Space companies).

Luis asks for **considerations on non-monolithic (SSI) FPGA devices, for use in Space**. \\
Gary comments on the current main concern: reliability issues are being addressed right now for this new technology. \\
Sebas suggests Luis to check-out recent [[https://nepp.nasa.gov/workshops/etw2017/talks.cfm|ETW-NASA presentations]] regarding reliability assessment status, and recent NASA materials on the involved challenges for radiation testing of such parts. 
On the latter, [[https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20170004732.pdf|this presentation of Ray Ladbury]] (recent MAPLD conference) explores the idea on using protons for this purpose. 







